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Redirect users to gmail,yahoo mail etc.

  • Hello everyone, I would like to know if this is possible:

    I got a link mail@gmail.com and instead of redirecting the users to their local mailclient I would like it to redirect them to gmail instead:

    something like this <a href="http://mail.google.com/mailto?mail@gmail.com">mail@gmail.com</a>, is this possible?
  • I don't think that is possible... And how would you determine what online mail client they use (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc) and what if they don't use any of those?
  • "falkencreative" said:
    I don't think that is possible... And how would you determine what online mail client they use (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc) and what if they don't use any of those?

    This is only going to be avaiable for gmail users. Damn, I really thought this was possible and that it was going to be easy :/.
  • I don't think this is possible either - never heard of anything like it before.

    Most people that don't use a local email client know to just select the text and copy it into their web mail service anyways.